Magazine-pencil.



A. R. T'ILLY.

' MAGAZINE PENCIL. APPUCATION FILED FEB. 2, I916.

Patented Oct. 2, 1917.

ALFRED IR. TILLY, OF

3300mm, NEW YORK.

MAGAZINE-PENCIL.

Specification o 1,2&2,080.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatI, ALFRED R. TILLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Magazine-Pencils; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. V

The primary object of this invention is to provide a magazine pencil, adapted to contain crayons of different colors, and so constructed that any one of the crayons can be conveniently and expeditiously brought into operative position and locked in such osition. 7

Another object of the invention is to provide a pencil, for carrying out the above object, and which will be of simple construction, cheap to manufacture, will be durable and eflicient in operation and of suchconstruction as to admit of the crayon being moved to operative position or to inoperative position without danger of the crayon becoming broken.

Other objects will appear-and be better understood from that embodiment of my invention of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof, in which:

Figure 1 is a Fig. 2 is a therethrough,

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrows, 7

Fig. a is a transverse section taken on the line H of Fig. 2 and looking in the direction of the arrows,

Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on the line 55 in Fig. 2 and looking in the direcas tion of the arrows.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the numeral 1 designates the. pencil, as an entirety, and which comprises a tubular casing 2 having its opposite ends open. A revtO oluble cylindrical shaped cap 3 is fitted over one end of the tubular casing 2, and associated with the cap 3 is an elongated magazine body 1, one end of which has rigid connection with the inner surface of the end 55 wall of the cap. The magazine body extends side view of the pencil,

85 longitudinal section taken f Letter Ea n Patented Oct. 2, 191W.

Application filed February 2, 1916. Serial No. 75,719.

into the casing 2 and is provided with lon gltudinal compartments 5.

A disk 6 is positioned adjacent the inner end of the magazine ,4 and is provided with a segmental slot 7, which opens into one edge of the disk. A revoluble conically shaped tip 8 is fitted over the end of' the tubular casing 2 and the tip has positioned therein an extension 9, one end of which'hasconnection with said end and its opposite end extends into the casing 2 and is provided with a flat head 10. The extension 9 has a longitudinal passage 11 extending through and adjacent one side thereof, and which registers with an opening 25 in the apex of the tip 8. A transverse passage 12 extends through one side of the extension and is located adjacent the forward end of the extension and communicates with the passage 11 in the extension. The inner end of the passage 11 opens into the inner end of the extension 9 and is enlarged and has one wall thereof flaring outwardly, as at 13. The extension 9 has one end of an elongated resilient clamping member 1 1 secured thereto, and the opposite end of the clamping member is free and is provided with a depending finger 15. The clamping member His located on posite to that side wall of the passage 11 that has the flaring portion 13, and has its free end overlying the opening 1 1 in the extension, and the said clamping member has its outer side provided with a raised cam surface 16, which is adapted to be engaged by a similar cam surface 17 formed on the inner side of the tubular casing 2, when the tip 8 is rotated in one direction.

The cap 3 is provided with a circumferential series of characters in the form of letters, or if desired any other type of characters may be used, the said characters being designated by the numeral 18. Each' of these characters overlie one of the compartments 5 in the magazine body and indicates the color of the crayon contained in the adjacent compartment; for instance the letter B indicates that the crayon in the adjacent compartment just below is of a blue color and G- indicates that the crayon in the compartment which is located above .is of a green color. The tubular casing 2 is provided at a point adjacent the cap with a longitudinally extending index mark 19. When it is desired to employ a crayon of a the side of the extension opcertain color, for instance blue, the cap 3 is rotated to bring the letter B into alinement with the index mark 19, resulting in the compartment containing the blue crayon being brought into registration with the segmental slot 7 in the disk 6. The tip 8 is then rotated so as to efi'ect engagement between the slot 7 and the adjacent end of the passage 11 in the extensionv 9. The pencil is then raised to the vertical or operative position so that the crayon will pass from the compartment in the magazine through the slot 7 and into the passage in the extension, so that one end thereof can be projected through the opening in the apex of the tip 8. When the enlarged end of the passage 11 and the segmental slot 7 in the disk 6 initially register, and sufliciently, to

admit of the passage of the crayon therethrough and into the passage in the extension, the cam 16 on the clamp 14, and the cam surface 17 ofthe tubular casing, Willslightly contact with each other, and further rotation of the tip in the same direction will cause the clamping member 14 to be depressed, so that the finger 15 will enter the passage 12 in the extension 9 and engage the crayon, resulting in the crayon being locked in operative position. When it is desired to return the crayon to the compartment in the magazine, the tip is rotated in the reverse direction, so as to release the clamping member 14 and the pencil then inverted so as to cause the crayon to descend into the magazine.

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transverse passage 12 therein communicatmeaoeo Having thus described my invention what claim as new, is:

In a magazine pencil, the combination with a tubular casing 2 having a stationary stationary member; of a tip 8 revolubly mounted on one end of the casing and having a crayon-receiving opening therem; an extension 9. carried by the tip and extending into the tubular casing and having a longitudinally extending crayonreceiving passage 11 therein opening into the opposite ends of the extension and communicating with the opening in the end of the tip; the inner end of the passage being adapted, when the tip is rotated in one direction, to register with the slot in the sta said extension having a ing with the longitudinal passage; a depressible element 14 mounted on the exten- EUGENE S.

MINTRAM, MINTRAM. 

